LONG-serving SJA member and award-winning newspaper columnist Anton Rippon has been dropped by the paper for which he has written for the past 20 year…
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Category: Regional newspapers
John Wray, for 50 years a Leeds reporter, has died
Brian Clough famously spent just 44 days as Leeds manager. Sports journalist John Wray was covering the team's progress for 50 years…
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Trinity Mirror regional cuts signal move to web
The introduction of regional print production teams will see the axing of 78 jobs, though 44 jobs are to be created, many of them for the company's we…
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Sex sells – but can clickbait save local papers?
Turmoil at the top of the editorial staff of a leading regional newspaper has prompted its erstwhile editor to call for a campaign to save local journ…
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Section 40 could stop investigative journalism, says Sunday Times
In-depth reports such as its investigation into Tour de France drugs cheat Lance Armstrong would never have been published if legislation proposed by …
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Footballer looks to a future in the press box
ANTON RIPPON on how a footballer is working hard off the pitch for a possible new job in print …
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Football club asks: Is the weekly paper redundant?
VIEW FROM THE PRESSBOX: And another football club decides it will ban reporters from its games and press conferences. ANTON RIPPON suggests that this …
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Sports stars pay tribute to Gibson’s half-century
Malcolm Macdonald, Peter Beardsley, Sir John Hall, Jack Charlton, Glenn McCrory, Steve Harper and Joe Allon were among the guests of honour at the eve…
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Coventry bans paper after calls for owners to sell
ANTON RIPPON reports on the latest threat against a local newpaper's coverage of a football club…
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Sunderland Echo moves reporter over ‘daft’ posts
ANTON RIPPON reports on the consequences of social media posts which have come back to haunt a football reporter…
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